Beckland North End, St. Samuel's Church.

At ten o'clock in the morning, when the largest church of the night in the Kingdom of Rune was at its quietest, a group of men and women in black trench coats stepped neatly through the door and walked down the narrow aisle, surrounded by beautiful frescoes and stained glass on both sides, to the Grand Prayer Hall.

At the head was a middle-aged man with long sideburns and soft features, who held a gold-studded black cane under his armpit and a file box in his hand.

Behind him were three men and one woman, a total of four younger followers, also dressed in trench coats, walking quietly with a frequency that inadvertently became the same.

This is a "Red Glove" team of the Night Watchman, led by Sost, who has just solved a serial murder case in Conston and captured two members of the "Demon Family" and was able to return to Bakeland to recuperate.

Instead of wearing conspicuous red gloves, they quietly entered the large prayer hall, passing by a small number of believers, and walked towards the altar.

At the end of the line was a young man wearing the same black trench coat as his teammates, with black hair and green eyes, and a random hairstyle.

He straightened out the trench coat with only two buttons, casually glanced at the believers in the prayer hall, and said with a sigh:

"I hope to rest for a few more days in Beckland this time, such a tiring rush, even the 'sleepless' can't last."

"It's not good, maybe a week or two, maybe tomorrow again, you should know that when you join the Red Gloves, Leonard."

Sost, who was at the front of the line, chuckled and replied.

He disbanded the group and let the other members sit down on the benches in front of the altar to soothe the fatigue of the mission and the journey by praying to the goddess, and he hurried out of the prayer hall through the passage behind the altar.

He's not going to go to Ms. Daly...... Looking at the back of Captain Sost, Leonard pursed his lips imperceptibly, sat down in the corner, avoided the other teammates, put his hands together on his forehead, pretended to pray intently, and said in a low voice:

"Old man, the 'tinder' glove we sold to that vampire last time, you still didn't have any sense?"

"Why did you start caring about this again?" An old voice appeared in his head, "The traces I left behind have long been cleared, it must be an existence that you can't provoke, don't think about it anymore, it's not that he didn't pay." ”

"I just want to do more research in the past few days, of course, if you don't let me touch it, I won't touch it."

Leonard replied with some perfunctory expression, his green eyes fixed on the ground in front of him, unsure of what he was thinking.

"Heh, if you can really be obedient, then I don't have to worry about it, but I guess you want to investigate those two men and women who were involved in a lot of incidents? I advise you to pay attention, Beckland is hiding too many secrets, don't mess with people and things that shouldn't be messed with because of curiosity. ”

The voice in his head immediately debunked his hidden thoughts.

"It's not like the previous ones." There was a hint of surprise in Leonard's low voice, and he caught a glimpse of Sost returning from behind the altar to the prayer hall, sitting down among the worshippers with a disappointed expression, and quickly bowed his head.

The voice in his head was silent for a long time, and just when he thought the conversation was over, he heard another sigh:

"Ascend the sequence as soon as possible, you should be able to promote the 'Requiem'."

There was a hint of urgency in the voice that had not been seen before.

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With a flash of flowers, Angel returned to the snowy field where the cold wind was blowing.

In front of her was the busy city, with huge doors behind her, tiny snowflakes floating above her head, and frozen hard earth beneath her feet.

"The wind and snow are a little lighter than last time, is it going to be spring here?"

She muttered, her gaze quickly scanning her surroundings, but she found no trace of the "Blood General".

It's been nearly half an hour since Crane smeared his blood and sent the badly wounded pirate general to Grossell's Travels, will he recover from his injuries and hide somewhere?

Angel pondered, and walked around the door to enter and exit the world of the book, but found no traces of blood as expected.

She thought that there would be a battle waiting for her after she came in, just in time to test the various abilities of the "Despair" witch, but she didn't expect to pounce.

After waiting for a moment, a heavily armed Crane appeared beside him, the expression on his face that told the same doubts as Angel.

"Maybe the place he entered was not by this gate, after all, we were the 'warriors' who defeated the king of the north, and he was not involved in that battle."

Angel speculated.

"Fortunately, I have a second hand to prepare."

Klein chuckled, took out a piece of wood from his pocket that had been prepared for a long time, stained with the blood of the "blood general" Seignor, and confirmed it with the divination staff, and found that Angel had guessed correctly, and the divination staff pointed to a location outside the city, rather than a densely populated city that was easier to hide.

According to the results of the divination, they soon found the unconscious Seigor by a forest outside the city that was still covered with frost.

The hapless pirate general was planted in a head-to-toe position in a deep pit that had been buried in snow, and the wound on the shoulder by Angel and the chest and abdomen penetration wound by Klein with the "death knell" had recovered significantly, and at this rate, it would take him another hour at most to wake up, crawl out of the pit, and regain some of his combat strength.

Gragging Seignor's limbs with silk threads and pulling him out of the pit, Angel tried to find that he would not wake up anytime soon, so he looked at Crane and asked in an inquiring tone:

"Take it to receive a reward, or become a secret puppet?"

"I'm not sure if he can pass through that gate without going through the 'King of the North' trial, or if he can become a secret puppet, so that he can attach to the object and be taken out by me."

Klein made a decisive decision.

After seeing the battle between the demigods, this "secret puppet master" is extremely eager to improve his combat ability, a powerful pirate general, a "resentful spirit" with diverse abilities, is a good tool for him to enhance his combat power and summarize the rules of play.

Angel nodded, got out of the way, and watched as Crane stepped forward and stood quietly beside the unconscious Seigno, his hands hanging down, as if in a daze.

After a while, the unconscious body on the ground began to struggle unconsciously, even if it was unconscious, the outstanding spirituality of the "resentful spirit" gave Seigor a strong sense of crisis.

It's a pity that he was seriously injured, tied up by invisible silk threads again and again, and even entered the sluggish stage of "secret couples", struggling slowly and weakly, and gradually stopped moving.

A "resentful spirit" in Sequence 5 has become a secret puppet in this way, losing his life and self...... Angel watched Señor's stiff struggles with emotion, assessing the strength of the most important ability, the "Master of Secret Puppets".

Of course, for me now, there is not much threat to the "Spirit Line", and I can use the "disease" with all my might, and it only takes a few seconds to make Crane lose focus, and after ten seconds, he can't even stand on his feet, let alone manipulate the Spirit Line...... Not to mention that in my experience in the previous sequences, the ability of "despair" is probably not only obtained when taking potions, but more, the extraordinary ability that needs to be explored and combined by yourself is the fundamental difference from different witches.

Suppressing the desire to "try her abilities", Angel waited for Klein to gradually complete the final control, allowing Señor to stand up in an uncoordinated position, moving his limbs, slowly becoming vivid and natural.

"It's done."

Señol spoke, his voice cold and emotionless.

"He still retains his old habits?"

Angel knew that "secret puppetization" was equivalent to death, and his subsequent actions and behaviors were all controlled by the secret puppet master, so he was very surprised by Seigno's "degree of reduction".

"No, it's up to me to figure it out and imitate, and of course, it's not that difficult for a 'Faceling' to imitate."

Señor replied in Crane's tone, and then his body gradually blurred and disappeared, and at the same time, the figure of the pirate general appeared on one of the gold coins that Crane had taken out.

"Let's go, let's get out of the book world first, I always feel that if I stay here for a long time, I will become a part of the story again."

Shoving the coin into his pocket, Klein said, excitement and joy in his tone.

Having obtained the Extraordinaire puppet, which is also in Sequence 5, he finally felt that the distance between him and Angel had narrowed a little closer.

In the face of his strange smile, Angel tilted his head slightly, feeling a hint of doubt.

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The speed of the spiritual world is 100 times that of the outside world, and it did not take long for the "Queen Anne's Revenge" to cross a distance of thousands of nautical miles and arrive near the island where Damir Harbor is located.

As she emerged from the spirit realm, Anne released the "Redhead" that had swallowed into the belly of the ship, and the tribulated three-masted schooner was now in a dilapidated state, barely able to pull up its sails with the help of a half-high mast and slowly sail towards Damir Harbor.

This time, "Redhead" may not be able to return to the sea without a month's maintenance, but fortunately, "Lucky William", who bravely followed Elaine to pick up Angel and Crane, woke up without showing other problems, highlighting the gold content of his nickname.

However, Angel found that the extraordinary person of the "monster" path never dared to look directly at Klein, which made her wonder if the latter's "peculiarity" would have some kind of adverse effect on the pathway, so that they were always "lucky" to avoid such direct gaze.

The other brave sailors were unharmed, and with the exception of a little frightened by the vision of the terrifying "Black Giant" before its arrival, they quickly returned to their posts alive.

In order to prevent the leakage of Annie's affairs, Annie, the angel of the "arbiter" channel, used the contract to make relevant restrictions on all crew members, including Elaine, according to her, she had asked many people to try to "kill her" on that nameless island before, and afterwards used similar methods to avoid revealing her whereabouts, and the effect was quite reliable.

However, the angel's current mentality has changed greatly, and Angel sees it in his eyes, and does not mention that she has agreed in the contract to "try to use the 'Calamity' charm again after being promoted".

"It seems that after meeting Bernadette, this ghost ship has a life of its own, no, it is the goal of the ship's life......"

She muttered under her breath, activating the Rose Necklace's wind-loving soul and blowing a gust of wind in an attempt to get the Redhead to speed toward the harbor.

The sailing ship, whose deck was almost completely shattered, with all three masts broken in the center, passed through the ships entering and leaving the harbor at a speed exceeding that of the steamer, and approached the busy dock in a near-ramming position.

(End of chapter)